Enzo Cilenti

Background

Cilenti was born on August 8, 1974, in Bradford, West Yorkshire to Italian parents from Foiano di Val Fortore (in the province of Benevento). He is a son-in-law of Cuban-born guitarist Isaac Guillory.

Education

Enzo Cilenti attended Bradford Grammar School. He received a degree in French and Spanish at the University of Nottingham.

Career

Cilenti's first professional acting role came in Trial & Retribution, which led to the role of Grant in the world premiere of Liz Lochhead's Perfect Days at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Here he was spotted by Wendy Brazington who was casting Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland which at the time had the working title Snarl Up. He played graphic artist Peter Saville on his second collaboration with Winterbottom, the Palme d'Or-nominated 24 Hour Party People.

He has appeared in plays both on and off the West End, notably lead roles in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at The New Ambassadors Theatre, and the European premiere of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics at the Hampstead Theatre. In 2007, Cilenti had a recurring role in the CBS series NCIS as terrorist Mamoun Sharif.

He also performed at The Royal Court in a series of plays written and directed by Russian artists entirely in Russian; in Thai ballet as Orpheus in Backpacker Orpheus, a play devised entirely from people's experiences in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; and in conceptual theatre for new-writing company Paines Plough in a series of shows (including a one-man show) commissioned over a number of seasons by Miuccia Prada to showcase collections for her Miu Miu line at Milan Fashion Week.

Cilenti also directed a short film called Getalife, and in 2015 produced, wrote and appeared in his first feature-length movie The Wicked Within. His first novel, Mediterranean Homesick Blues, co-written with Ben Chatfield, was published in 2012.

He appeared in Kick-Ass 2 (2013) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). In The Theory of Everything, he portrayed astrophysicist Kip Thorne. In 2015, he joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as Yezzan zo Qaggaz; he also appeared in the BBC series Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in the role of Childermass. Cilenti played the part of Aubrey Hackett in the Amazon Studios series The Last Tycoon, which was released in July 2017.

In 2019, he played the role of Joe Lyppiatt (in a gender-swap for the character Joanna) in Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Old Vic in London opposite Andrew Scott.

Achievements

• Enzo Cilenti gained his fame for his roles in Free Fire (2016), In the Loop (2009) and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). He won the Festival Prize at the Frostbite International Film Festival in 2017.
  
  

Works

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  • Wonderland

    (There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill,...)

    1999

Personality

Physical Characteristics: Height: 6' 1" (1,85 m)

Weight: 75 kg

Connections

Enzo Cilenti worked with his girlfriend, actress Sienna Guillory, in the 2001 film Late Night Shopping. The two were married in 2002, and they have continued to appear together in various works. In February 2011 Guillory gave birth to their twin daughters, Valentina and Lucia, named after Guillory's grandmother and great aunt, who were also twin sisters.

Spouse:

Sienna Guillory

(born 16 March 1975)

She is an English actress and former model.

father-in-law:

Isaac Guillory

Daughter:

Valentina Cilenti

Daughter:

Lucia Cilenti

colleague:

Emilia Clarke

(born 23 October 1986)

She is an English actress.

References

• Enzo Cilenti - Instagram
• Enzo Cilenti - Twitter